Well, that begs the question of whether people have ever been decent. Hammurabi's code has always been more popular than the Golden Rule. Man started playing God since he left Eden (metaphorically speaking), and Man will continue to pay the Karma for it.

But, uh, flying spaghetti monster. Etc.

I don't know. I see evil as a force in the world to be reckoned with. I don't think people are inherently evil in their original state of being, but I do think they are capable of doing anything good or bad. I believe we are born into the world with the seeds of good evil we carried with us from previous lives...that's my 2 cents.

I'd love to see Polanski's astrological chart and have it explained to me by an expert. He must have some pretty heavy planets affecting him, what with basically running from being imprisoned (Nazi or American) his whole life, and losing almost every significant female in his life to murder.

Whenever I see cases like Polanski's I always wonder if they are doing a service to all of us on a grand scale, by maybe helping us confront the evil within ourselves.

Well, that begs the question of whether people have ever been decent. Hammurabi's code has always been more popular than the Golden Rule. Man started playing God since he left Eden (metaphorically speaking), and Man will continue to pay the Karma for it.

But, uh, flying spaghetti monster. Etc.

I don't know. I see evil as a force in the world to be reckoned with. I don't think people are inherently evil in their original state of being, but I do think they are capable of doing anything good or bad. I believe we are born into the world with the seeds of good evil we carried with us from previous lives...that's my 2 cents.

I'd love to see Polanski's astrological chart and have it explained to me by an expert. He must have some pretty heavy planets affecting him, what with basically running from being imprisoned (Nazi or American) his whole life, and losing almost every significant female in his life to murder.

Whenever I see cases like Polanski's I always wonder if they are doing a service to all of us on a grand scale, by maybe helping us confront the evil within ourselves.

I dig what you're saying in terms of the infinite cumulative experience and those entities' contributions to it, and from there Schopenauer, and failure of compassion for all life being incomprehensible. My previous post was just my observation of the mass base consciousness at its lcd.

Well, I'm not sure I don't disagree that Polanski shouldn't serve punishment on this one, whether or not 30 years have passed, a plea-deal was defaulted on, or the victim has forgiven him. It's a pretty awful mistake that he made, and less-famous and less-wealthy people would not have had the options of evading serving time that he did. I mean, if an un-famous un-wealthy person like, say, Cheeso did this, he most suredly would not have success fleeing punishment, the way that Polanski did. Polanski's not better than Cheeso, he shouldn't get different treatment, but Polanski didn't make everybody so bloodthirsty either, which is just as disgusting as what he did.

The attitudes of society and of law enforcement toward his crime have changed in those 30 years...that's all I'm saying. If Polanski was about to be sentenced to 50 years in jail, it was not because the authorities deemed him a threat to society, it was because the judge went back on his word regarding the plea deal, because he didn't like the way the press was treating him.

Anger is a natural human emotion. Jesus felt anger. He expressed it better than I do, but he still felt it. If Cheeso showed up to my church and started harrassing my pastor the way he harrasses me on this forum, and my pastor just let him stay there in the church during service, I wouldn't respect my pastor.